Secure Outsourcing Across Geographical & Organizational Boundaries

Today increasing amounts of work are performed without regard to geographical or organizational boundaries. The drive to tap into additional sources of expertise and reduce costs is relentless. High-tech enterprises based in the U.S.A. and India manage development teams around the world. Financial services firms in Europe run back office operations from locations in Asia.

Regardless of industry or location, the common denominator is a need to share information. But with sharing comes potential loss of sensitive information. When the risk is judged to be high, either information is not shared at all or its flow is constrained severely. The result: work may not be done where it is most efficiently executed, leading to less competitive solutions, higher costs, and lower profits. What's required: a solution for securing highly distributed environments.

Fortressware provides a secure and productive solution for just such environments. Using Fortressware, a headquarters workgroup can quickly initiate projects that require the skills of an outsource or offshore group. The workgroup's manager designates the tools, resources, and devices project members will be entitled to use. She then provides each member with a secure package that, once loaded on a computer, provides the secure virtual project workspace in which all project work will be performed.

Using Fortressware, a project manager is able to:

Define projects independently, without requiring the services of headquarters or 3rd party IT groups
Enforce a common policy across a project, including members working remotely, and dynamically change it as necessary, e.g., replace members, provide new tools
Protect the integrity of the project by setting check in intervals and project expiration
Allow team members to access information directly from repositories or indirectly through encrypted files provided
Monitor in real time/review reports of all activities of project members
Demonstrate to headquarters and 3rd parties that all project content, both new and existing, is encrypted as it moves to project members, is shared amongst them, resides on their computers, and is returned to central repositories. central repositories.

With Fortressware, project members do their work as they would normally, blocked only when they attempt an unauthorized action that cause information to leak.